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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-05-16 09:50:24 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-05-21 11:18:26 +0100
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chroot: with --userspec clear root's supplemental groups
It's dangerous and confusing to leave root's supplemental groups in place when specifying other users with --userspec. In the edge case that that is desired one can explicitly specify --groups. Also we implicitly set the system defined supplemental groups for a user. The existing mechanism where supplemental groups needed to be explicitly specified is confusing and not general when the lookup needs to be done within the chroot. Also we extend the --groups syntax slightly to allow clearing the set of supplementary groups using --groups=''. * src/chroot.c (setgroups): On systems without supplemental groups, clearing then is a noop and so should return success. (main): Lookup the primary GID with getpwuid() when just a numeric uid is specified, and also infer the USERNAME from this call, needed when we're later looking up the supplemental groups for a user. Support clearing supplemental groups, either implicitly for unknown users, or explicitly when --groups='' is specified. * tests/misc/chroot-credentials.sh: Various new test cases * doc/coreutils.texi (chroot invocation): Adjust for the new behavior. * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
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